Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip - Simon Hart

For five turbulent years, Simon Hart sat at the epicentre of recent British politics. He observed first-hand the rising and rapid unravelling of tensions in Westminster, from fraught Brexit negotiations to Liz Truss’s fleeting premiership and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He also oversaw a near-record fifteen Conservative MPs fall by the wayside. These events revealed the unstable relationships , rivalries and egos driving such upheaval. Yet, under Rishi Sunak, amid the chaos and uncertainty, Hart emerged as one of the rare Chief Whips to survive an entire premiership.

Ungovernable presents an unprecedented insider’s chronicle of power and politics plotted behind closed doors and played out on the nation’s stage. This is a real-time diary that defines what really happens within modern British politics, and why it matters to us all.